AN ACCURATE examination of the common duct should be a part of every operation on the extrahepatic biliary tract, except in the few cases in which the surgeon can be certain that the disease is ...

IN recent years, cholecystectomy has been performed in an increasing number of patients. As a result, two serious complications of biliary-tract surgery have occurred with increasing frequency. The ...

Is routine operative cholangiography during gallbladder removal beneficial? In this study, the authors conducted a randomized trial in 190 patients undergoing cholecystectomy. Common duct stones were ...

In an analysis of a procedure used to help prevent common duct injury during gallbladder removal surgery, use of intraoperative cholangiography (radiologic examination of the ducts during gallbladder ...

Methods of imaging the biliary tract in adults include ERCP and transhepatic cholangiography. In infants with cholestatic jaundice, in whom biliary atresia is a diagnostic possibility and early ...

Gallstone disease is responsible for about 1.8 million ambulatory care visits and more than 700 000 cholecystectomies yearly in the United States.1, 2 In Canada, the adjusted annual rate of elective ...